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brew
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n 1: drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather
than distilling [syn: brew, brewage]
v 1: prepare by brewing; "people have been brewing beer for
thousands of years"
2: sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor;
"the tea is brewing"
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crew
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n 1: the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
2: an organized group of workmen [syn: gang, crew, work
party]
3: an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the
same crowd" [syn: crowd, crew, gang, bunch]
4: the team of men manning a racing shell
v 1: serve as a crew member on
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dew
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n 1: water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from
water vapor in the air; "in the morning the grass was wet
with dew"
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do
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n 1: an uproarious party [syn: bash, do, brawl]
2: the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale
in solmization [syn: do, doh, ut]
3: doctor's degree in osteopathy [syn: Doctor of Osteopathy,
DO]
v 1: engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do
research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" [syn: make,
do]
2: carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the
weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater
executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" [syn:
perform, execute, do]
3: get (something) done; "I did my job" [syn: do, perform]
4: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?";
"How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a
long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get
along]
5: give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always
intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an
accident" [syn: cause, do, make]
6: carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice
law" [syn: practice, practise, exercise, do]
7: be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A
few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well";
"Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into
medical school"; "Nothing else will serve" [syn: suffice,
do, answer, serve]
8: create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in
blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the
forest" [syn: do, make] [ant: undo, unmake]
9: behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct
or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't
behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog
acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" [syn:
act, behave, do]
10: spend time in prison or in a labor camp; "He did six years
for embezzlement" [syn: serve, do]
11: carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help
around here" [syn: do, manage]
12: arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" [syn:
dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe,
coiffure]
13: travel or traverse (a distance); "This car does 150 miles
per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"
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due
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adv 1: directly or exactly; straight; "went due North"
adj 1: owed and payable immediately or on demand; "payment is
due" [ant: undue]
2: scheduled to arrive; "the train is due in 15 minutes"
3: suitable to or expected in the circumstances; "all due
respect"; "due cause to honor them"; "a long due promotion";
"in due course"; "due esteem"; "exercising due care" [ant:
undue]
4: capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors
ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of
the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not
imputable to him" [syn: ascribable, due, imputable,
referable]
n 1: that which is deserved or owed; "give the devil his due"
2: a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership);
"the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"
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few
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adj 1: a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is
often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a
few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an
invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses
were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in
battle" [ant: many]
n 1: a small elite group; "it was designed for the
discriminating few"
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flu
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n 1: an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease [syn:
influenza, flu, grippe]
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flue
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n 1: flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor [syn:
fluke, flue]
2: organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the
sharp edge of a fissure or lip [syn: flue pipe, flue,
labial pipe]
3: a conduit to carry off smoke
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gnu
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n 1: large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox
and a long tufted tail [syn: gnu, wildebeest]
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hue
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n 1: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant
wavelength [syn: hue, chromaticity]
v 1: take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to
a dull silver-grey"
2: suffuse with color [syn: imbue, hue]
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lieu
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n 1: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or
served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his
place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place,
lieu]
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mew
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n 1: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
[syn: meow, mew, miaou, miaow, miaul]
2: the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
[syn: mew, mew gull, sea mew, Larus canus]
v 1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow, mew]
2: utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
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moo
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n 1: the sound made by a cow or bull
v 1: make a low noise, characteristic of bovines [syn: moo,
low]
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new
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adv 1: very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised
objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed
by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh
out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh,
new]
adj 1: not of long duration; having just (or relatively
recently) come into being or been made or acquired or
discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a
new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" [ant: old]
2: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer
produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
[syn: fresh, new, novel]
3: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new]
4: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time
of unexampled prosperity" [syn: new, unexampled]
5: other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new
leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000
miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction"
6: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" [ant:
worn]
7: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled
ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never
uses them" [syn: newfangled, new]
8: in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language
of the 18th to 21st dynasties"
9: used of a living language; being the current stage in its
development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew"
[syn: Modern, New]
10: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development;
before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn:
new, young]
11: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him";
"errors of someone new to the job"
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pew
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n 1: long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
[syn: pew, church bench]
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rue
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n 1: European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green
bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
[syn: rue, herb of grace, Ruta graveolens]
2: leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but
should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like
poison ivy
3: sadness associated with some wrong done or some
disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a
note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him
the game" [syn: sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness]
4: (French) a street or road in France
v 1: feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about [syn:
repent, regret, rue]
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screw
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n 1: someone who guards prisoners [syn: prison guard,
jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkey]
2: a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a
spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a
similarly threaded hole
3: a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push
against water or air [syn: screw, screw propeller]
4: a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
5: slang for sexual intercourse [syn: fuck, fucking,
screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of
ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup]
v 1: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in
the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with,
get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate,
have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw,
fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a
go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]
2: turn like a screw
3: cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion; "drive in
screws or bolts" [syn: screw, drive in]
4: tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions; "Screw the
bottle cap on" [ant: unscrew]
5: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat,
chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey]
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shoe
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n 1: footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a
flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of
heavier material
2: (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at
a time
3: U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof [syn:
horseshoe, shoe]
4: a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved
hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's
rotation [syn: brake shoe, shoe, skid]
v 1: furnish with shoes; "the children were well shoed"
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shoo
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v 1: drive away by crying `shoo!' [syn: shoo off, shoo,
shoo away]
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shrew
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n 1: a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman [syn: shrew,
termagant]
2: small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles
[syn: shrew, shrewmouse]
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skew
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adj 1: having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the
picture was skew" [syn: skew, skewed]
v 1: turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper
are skewed" [ant: adjust, align, aline, line up]
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slew
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n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or
extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot
of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the
rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must
have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of
money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great
deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile,
plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew,
spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to
the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the
right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer,
slue, slew, cut]
2: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled
manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn:
skid, slip, slue, slew, slide]
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spew
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v 1: expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth;
"The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
[syn: spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue]
2: eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical;
"the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors
of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential
candidate" [syn: spew, spew out, eruct]
3: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him
last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
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stew
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n 1: agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a
stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew,
sweat, lather, swither]
2: food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with
vegetables
v 1: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, brood,
stew]
2: bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings [syn: stew, grudge]
3: cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; "Stew the
vegetables in wine"
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strew
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v 1: spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all
over the carpet" [syn: strew, straw]
2: cover; be dispersed over; "Dead bodies strewed the ground"
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sue
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n 1: French writer whose novels described the sordid side of
city life (1804-1857) [syn: Sue, Eugene Sue]
v 1: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;
"He was warned that the district attorney would process
him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" [syn:
action, sue, litigate, process]
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too
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adv 1: to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits; "too big"
[syn: excessively, overly, to a fault, too]
2: in addition; "he has a Mercedes, too" [syn: besides, too,
also, likewise, as well]
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two
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adj 1: being one more than one; "he received two messages" [syn:
two, 2, ii]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a
numeral representing this number [syn: two, 2, II,
deuce]
2: one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
[syn: deuce, two]
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cru
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flew
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knew
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to
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crewe
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roo
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